Publications

In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall discusses how marriage and cohabitation — relative to being single — affect where men and women fall along the income distribution.

A.B. Kennickell. The Journal Economic Inequality. vol. 17, no.4. pp. 443-459. 2019.

In this blog post, Nishant Yonzan looks at three definitions of income and finds they all show significant drops in prosperity for the bottom 50 percent.

B. Milanovic. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. 2019.

M. Connolly, M. Corak, and C. Haeck. Journal of Labor Economics. vol. 37, no. s2. 2019.

M. Corak. The Economic Journal. vol. 130, no. 631, pp. 2134–2174. 2020.

D. Bloome, D. Burk, and L. McCall. American Journal of Sociology. vol. 124, no. 5. 2019.

B. Milanovic. The Review of Income and Wealth. vol. 65, no. 1. pp. 1-20. 2019.

This dataset, constructed by Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic, represents a compilation and adaptation of income or consumption Gini coefficients (calculated across households or household per capita; on gross or net basis) retrieved from nine sources. B. Milanovic. 2019.

B. Milanovic. The Economic History Review. vol. 71, no. 4. pp. 1029-1047. 2018.